What did you do in your garden today?

[akroberts]

@flowerbug, putting garlic in a jar of water and allowing it to develop green shoots can make it easier to get the heads you want. I did do that this year so I will keep everyone updated on the results. So completely new to me is my husband and I made raised beds from pallets. Here's the pictures: The small one is the 1st one. I'm big one is the 2nd one. We turned the little one upside down after we moved it.

 

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug, putting garlic in a jar of water and allowing it to develop green shoots can make it easier to get the heads you want. I did do that this year so I will keep everyone updated on the results.[...]

i normally get pretty decent bulbs from my garlic plantings, the size has not been an issue, it's the quality of the bulbs after harvest and that is due to soil being very heavy where i grew them the past few years. this past fall i planted some of the cloves in better soil so it should be better results.

your method is ok for longer season and warmer weather growing, but here the best time to get the garlic planted is right before the weather gets too cold so no extra energy is wasted on top growth that might soon be killed off by the cold. it will grow and finish ok. i've left garlic in the ground the entire year before and had it come out ok, but for bigger bulbs the better results will come from planting later towards winter.

in the end though it is also very weather related along with spacing and soil quality.

oh, i've also in the past grown a lot of garlic for early harvest (often called green garlic). it's yummy and a good way to use up a lot of the smaller cloves if you don't want to eat them, just plant them a bit deeper so you get more blanched stem.

 

[akroberts]

Tomorrow I am going to post some pictures of the garden and I want everyone to find it as humorous as I do.

 

[akroberts]

This is the small bed that I planted. No I didn't plant everything to the one side but my girls decided that I didn't plant it right so they had to fix it for me

 

[flowerbug]

i'm looking out the patio door at all the white snow with the sun shining on it. very bright.

packing up some peas and beans to send to someone - finally can get this done. hope no more emergencies come up in the next few hours...

 

[FarmerJamie]

I am debating whether or not to grow sunchokes or not. I assume they will take over the bed I put them in, based on my previous experiences. The potatoes are storing well in the house, not quite a peck left, I will plant russets because they seemed to store well.

I have 4 crowns of asparagus in one bed. There is plenty of room, considering adding 4 more.

Will plant 3 okra seeds as a test.

Going to open up another small plot and plant mammoth sunflowers as a test to see if the Bambi herd will leave it alone.

February garden planning in the recliner with coffee and a cat.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

February garden planning

That's where I'm at. Not in the recliner though..

Planning on building a screen hoop house. I was looking at indoor hydroponics systems, which in theory sound wonderful for a few things - but definitely not cost effective for a little bit of lettuce, lol.

Need to get a list together and as soon as I can get my trailer out of a mud hole I'll pick up materials.

 

[R2elk]

Going to open up another small plot and plant mammoth sunflowers as a test to see if the Bambi herd will leave it alone.

My experience here in normal years is that the deer tend to leave yellow flowers alone. In a dry year they will eat every and all flowers except catmint. Catmint is the only plant I have found that the deer will not eat.